New businesses, new stores, new restaurants pop up all the time around Chapel Hill, Orange County.

Sometimes, all the newness can make you forget the places that have been here a long time. You shouldn’t. Here’s why.

The name is still Sutton’s Drug Store, although it’s not dispensing drugs anymore since the pharmacy part closed down several years ago. But Sutton’s, on East Franklin Street, is still, as its motto says, “Feeding Chapel Hill Since 1923!” And it still feels like an old-fashioned drug store.

You can sit at the soda counter or at a Formica table, get an Oreo milkshake or a perfect hot dog. Come for the nostalgia, and the Carolina basketball jerseys, stay for the grilled cheese.

At Sutton's, the mood is casual. Just down Franklin Street, at Julian’s clothing shop, the atmosphere is, well, more dressy. Established in 1942 by Maurice Julian and carried on today by his son, designer Alexander Julian, this clothing shop is where the preppy look began and where it still has pride of place.

According to several studies, 90 percent of independent restaurants close during their first year. Then there’s the Carolina Coffee Shop.

Adjacent to the university on Franklin Street, the Carolina Coffee Shop is the oldest continually running restaurant in North Carolina. It will turn 100 years old in 2022. While waiting for the anniversary celebration, try a little celebrating of your own at lunch with the Italian sub — turkey, prosciutto, mortadella, hot soppressata, provolone, tomato, red onion, arugula salad, and peppercorn mayonnaise served on a toasted ciabatta roll.

Cat’s Cradle may have changed locations a number of times since 1969, but it’s still the place to be for live music. This is where you could have seen Nirvana, Public Enemy, Joan Baez, and many more. It’s also the venue that helped launch the careers of local Indie stars Superchunk and Ben Folds Five.

Now on East Main Street in Carrboro, the Cradle allows concert-goers and music lovers a chance to see both established and up-and-coming bands in an intimate setting. By the way, the entrance is in the back.

If you didn’t know it was there, you wouldn’t know it was there. But enough customers have gone down a dusty gravel road, past the railroad tracks north of Chapel Hill, to keep the Farm House in business since 1969.

The attraction — in addition to the quiet, rustic, country setting — is the steaks. Cooked on an open charcoal grill and brought to the table still sizzling on hot cast-iron skillets, here’s solid traditional American fare. Yes, there’s shrimp and grilled tuna, too, but this is a steakhouse, so please do order the super rib eye.

Mama Dip is gone — she passed away last year, at the age of 89. But Mama Dip’s, her restaurant and her legacy, live on. As the story goes, Mildred Council, known to everyone as Mama Dip, opened the Rosemary Street place in 1976 with $64: $40 for food and $24 to make the change. The morning's profits were used to fund lunch, and the lunch profits to make dinner.

The restaurant has remained a pillar of traditional down-home cooking since then. Have the hushpuppies. Try the barbecue. Luxuriate in the sweet corn. And whatever you do, absolutely don’t miss the fried green tomatoes. You’ll understand why this is a renowned southern icon.

The Carolina Inn, on Columbia Street, is not just a hotel. It’s an integral part of UNC-Chapel Hill and an architecturally significant landmark. Built in 1924, the inn was gifted in 1935 to the university, which still owns it, with a stipulation that all profits be used to support the university's library.

What has made Carrboro one of the hippest, most artistic communities around? A good argument could be made that it was TheArtsCenter.

In 1974, when Carrboro was seen as more of an industrial town, artist Jacques Menache rented a space on the second floor of what’s now Armadillo Grill on Main Street and offered drawing and painting classes. Today, the ArtsCenter, now a little farther west, offers space for various performances, concerts — Grammy nominee Alice Gerrard is coming up — films, poetry readings, and art exhibits all year-round.

Forty or so years ago, “the idea of a natural foods store was granola in buckets," remembered Ruffin Slater, who helped found Weaver Street Market. The market opened in 1988 and is today a lot more than granola in buckets. It’s a grocery with lots of healthy and organic foods, as well as a community focal point, a small-town success story where everybody gathers for coffee or hula hooping on the lawn.

Carol and Neil Offen at Weaver Street Market, which has been around since 1988

Maple View Ice Cream, off Dairyland Road, opened its doors in 2001, serving 12 flavors. But its history, originally in the state of Maine, goes back to the early 1800s. In 1963, the farm, cows and all, moved 1,000 miles to Orange County; 40 years later, the ice cream store started scooping. Now you can get homemade milkshakes, malts, floats and banana splits as well as local yogurts, cheeses, eggs, pecans, fudge, and old-fashioned candies — and a lot more than 12 flavors.